'Oh Boy' Scores Three for Three at Oldenburg Film Fest

This triple-crown win is a first for Oldenburg and should serve as quite a push for director Jan Ole Gerster, whose efforts went unrecognized at this year’s Munich Film Festival, where the Tom Schilling-starring film premiered.

OLDENBURG – Jan Ole Gerster’s Berlin-based comedy Oh Boy wowed the jury at this year’s Oldenburg International Film Festival, scoring not only the German Independence Award for the best local film, but also beating out a number of highly praised international titles – including Marshall Lewy’s Robert-Carlyle-starrer California Solo and Joseph Rezwin’s documentary Gazzara - for its audience award.

In addition, the black-and-white, Berlin-based comedy won its leading actor, Tom Schilling, this year’s inaugural Seymour Cassel Best Actor award – an honor that Cassel reportedly would have loved to present, had his current schedule not kept him on Robert Saitzyk’s set for The Last Beat.